Postgres year in review 2025

Nik and Michael discuss the events and trends they thought were most important in the Postgres ecosystem in 2025. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Postgres 18 release notes https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18.html Our episode on Postgres 18 https://postgres.fm/episodes/postgres-18 LWLock:LockManager benchmarks for Postgres 18 (blog post by Nik) https://postgres.ai/blog/20251009-postgres-marathon-2-005 PostgreSQL bug tied to zero-day attack on US Treasury https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/postgresql_bug_treasury PgDog episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/pgdog Multigres episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/multigres Neki announcement https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-neki Our 100TB episode from 2024 https://postgres.fm/episodes/to-100tb-and-beyond PlanetScale for Postgres https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-for-postgres Oracle's MySQL job cuts https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/oracle_slammed_for_mysql_job Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/05/amazon-aurora-dsql-generally-available Announcing Azure HorizonDB https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/announcing-azure-horizondb/4469710 Lessons from Replit and Tiger Data on Storage for Agentic Experimentation https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/lessons-replit-tiger-data-storage-agentic-experimentation Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 https://boringsql.com/posts/instant-database-clones turbopuffer episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/turbopuffer Crunchy joins Snowflake https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/crunchy-data-joins-snowflake Neon joins Databricks https://neon.com/blog/neon-and-databricks ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With credit to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork